Voicing in Japanese

Table of Contents: “…The correlation between accentuation and Rendaku in Japanese surnames : a morphological account /…”
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Family names of the island of Newfoundland by Seary, E. R.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Editor's Preface -- Note on the Author -- Introduction -- I: Range and Aims -- II: Sources of Information -- III: Surnames â€? Some General Considerations -- IV: The Surnames of Newfoundland -- Select Bibliography -- 1 General Works â€? …”
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Family Names and Family History. by Hey, David

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; I: The History of Family Names; 1 Names and History; 2 The Normans; 3 The Origins of English Family Names; 4 The Development of Family Names; 5 Stability and Change; II: Tracing Surnames Back in Time; 6 The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 7 Family Names in the Seventeenth Century and Earlier; III: Tracing Your Own Name; 8 Steps to Tracing Your Surname; 9 The Most Common Surnames; 10 Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M.…”
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Framer Framed : Film Scripts and Interviews. by Minh-ha, Trinh T.

Table of Contents: “…Naked Spaces-Living Is Round; 2. Surname Viet Given Name Nam; 3. Reassemblage; Interviews; 4. …”
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On illustrious men by Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

Table of Contents: “…James, the brother of the Lord -- 3. Matthew, surnamed Levi -- 4. Jude, the brother of James -- 5. …”
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On illustrious men by Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

Table of Contents: “…James, the brother of the Lord -- 3. Matthew, surnamed Levi -- 4. Jude, the brother of James -- 5. …”
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Names and Nunavut : culture and identity in Arctic Canada by Alia, Valerie, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The importance of names in Inuit culture -- Visiting, colonial style : from early days of cultural intervention to the Cold War -- Renamed overnight : the history of Project Surname -- 'The people who love you' : contemporary perspectives on naming in Nunavut -- Homelands and diasporas : concluding thoughts on the politics of naming.…”
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Upton Sinclair : the Lithuanian Jungle : upon the centenary of The Jungle (1905 and 1906) by Upton Sinclair by Subačius, Giedrius

Table of Contents: “…Sinclair's passion for foreign languages ; Lithuanian words and phases ; Surnames. -- 3. Specific locations. Carey's dump ; Back of the Yards ; The wedding feast saloon ; The church of the wedding ceremony. -- 4. …”
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Aztlán Arizona : Mexican American educational empowerment, 1968-1978 by Echeverría, Darius V., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Occupied Arizona: Mexican Americans and the parameters of a pedestrian people -- A measure of the marginalized Mexican American: a scholastic survey of Spanish-surnamed strangers -- Bias, boycotts, and battling barriers: Mexican Americans in public schools -- Activists of academia: students, scholars, and staffers at Arizona State University -- The promise and peril of protests: undergraduates and underrepresentation at the University of Arizona -- A part, yet apart: (Re)Arranging academic Arizona from hocus-pocus to Horne.…”
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Social Adjustment and Personality Development in Children. by Roff, Merrill

Table of Contents: “…Children with Spanish Surnames; 6. Peer Status and Background Factors; 7. …”
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Women and the family in Chinese history by Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Cremation in Song China. -- Surnames and Han Chinese identity. -- Rethinking the imperial harem: Why were there so many palace women? …”
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Blood of the Celts : the new ancestral story by Manco, Jean

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; About the Author; Other titles of Interest; Dedication; Contents; Prologue; Timeline; 1 The Voices of the Celts; 2 The Gauls and Celtic; 3 Bell Beakers and Language; 4 The Indo-European Family; 5 Stelae to Bell Beaker; 6 The Iron Sword; 7 On the Move; 8 Celts vs Romans; 9 Christian Celts; 10 Loss and Revival; Appendix: Surnames and DNA; Notes; Bibliography; Sources of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Index; Copyright…”
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Social Adjustment and Personality Development in Children. by Roff, Merrill

Table of Contents: “…Children with Spanish Surnames; 6. Peer Status and Background Factors; 7. …”
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Decoding Subaltern Politics : Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics. by Scott, James C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The ""way"" of peasant politics-agrarian revolt and the little tradition: the religious dimension; 3 Themes of peasant politics: localism, syncretism, profanation -agrarian revolt and the little tradition: the political dimension; 4 Modes of dissimulation; 5 Dissimulation in practice: resistance to the tithe in France and Malaysia; below the radar; 6 The state's grip on the vernacular world; 7 The production of legal identities proper to states: the case of the permanent family surname; Notes; Index.…”
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In the Name of Italy : Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court. by Hametz, Maura

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The boundless sea : self and history by Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-

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Spelling and society : the culture and politics of orthography around the world by Sebba, Mark

Table of Contents: “…; Glossary; References; General Index; lndex of language names; Index of surnames.…”
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Learning to stand & speak : women, education, and public life in America's republic by Kelley, Mary, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- You will arrive at distinguished usefulness : the grounds for women's entry into public life -- The need of their genius : the rights and obligations of schooling -- Female academies are everywhere establishing : curriculum and pedagogy -- Meeting in this social way to search for truth : literary societies, reading circles, and mutual improvement associations -- The privilege of reading : women, books, and self-imagining -- Whether to make her surname More or Adams : women writing women's history -- The mind is, in a sense, its own home : gendered republicanism as lived experience -- Epilogue.…”
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Freedom's promise : ex-slave families and citizenship in the Age of Emancipation by Regosin, Elizabeth Ann

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Pension Process: A View from Both Sides -- Chapter Two: "We All Have Two Names": Surnames and Familial Identity -- Chapter Three: "According to the Custom of Slaves": Widows' Pension Claims and the Bounds of Marriage -- Chapter Four: "The Order of Civilization": Minors' Pensions, Legitimacy, and the Father-Centered Family -- Chapter Five: "My Master ... …”
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Freedom's promise : ex-slave families and citizenship in the Age of Emancipation by Regosin, Elizabeth Ann

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Pension Process: A View from Both Sides -- Chapter Two: "We All Have Two Names": Surnames and Familial Identity -- Chapter Three: "According to the Custom of Slaves": Widows' Pension Claims and the Bounds of Marriage -- Chapter Four: "The Order of Civilization": Minors' Pensions, Legitimacy, and the Father-Centered Family -- Chapter Five: "My Master ... …”
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Intolerable cruelty : marriage, law, and society in early twentieth-century China by Kuo, Margaret, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…List of tables -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Law and the state -- Introduction -- GMD legal exceptionalism : conceptual underpinnings of the republican civil code -- The rise of public opinion : the case of GMD surname legislation -- The process of civil adjudication : marital justice and the republican civil court system -- Law and society -- Spousal abuse : divorce litigation and the emergence of rights consciousness -- Running away : cohabitation litigation and the reconfiguration of husband patriarchy -- Bourgeois affairs : separation and support litigation and injury to reputation -- Natural eunuchs : husband impotence annulment litigation and legal opportunism -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Basic written Chinese : move from complete beginner level to basic proficiency by Kubler, Cornelius C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; A Note to the Mearner; Contents; Acknowledgments; Orientation; About This Course; Organization and Use; An Overview of the Chinese Writing System; Suggested Strategies for Learning to Read and Write Chinese; Abbreviations; Classroom Expressions; INTRODUCTORY UNIT A: NUMBERS, SURNAMES, PERSONAL NAMES, AND PLACE NAMES; Part 1: Numbers from 1 to 5 and the Surname Wáng; Part 2: Numbers from 6 to 10 and the Surname Lín; Part 3: Some Common Personal Names and Place Names; Part 4: More Common Personal Names and Place Names; INTRODUCTORY UNIT B: PEOPLE, PLACES, STREETS, AND ROADS.…”
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Life behind the lobby : Indian motel owners and the American dream by Dhingra, Pawan

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Maltese in Michigan by Lubig, Joseph M.

Table of Contents: “…Zampa -- Appendix 3: Maltese surnames -- Appendix 4: Language -- Appendix 5: 2000 census of Maltese in Michigan -- Appendix 6: Reflections on World War II -- Appendix 7: Maltese ethnic and social organizations.…”
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The boundless sea : self and history by Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-

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Public Memory in Early China by Brashier, K. E.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Public Memory in Early China -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Han memorial culture -- SECTION 1: "Repeated Inking" and the backdrop of a manuscript culture -- SECTION 2: "Continuous Chanting" and the backdrop of an oral performance culture -- SECTION 3: Inking and Chanting share their secret of longevity -- PART I: Names as positioning the self -- SECTION 4: The ancestor's given names as locative markers -- SECTION 5: The ancestor's surname as a spatial marker -- SECTION 6: Following the named lineage back through time…”
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Our tangled speech essays on language and culture by Mac Póilin, Aodán, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Irish language television in Northern Ireland -- The BBC and the Irish language -- Irish and other origins of surnames -- Endnotes -- Index -- Copyright…”
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The Edinburgh companion to Scots

Table of Contents: “…Derrick McClure and Jane Stuart-Smith -- Scottish place-names / Margaret Scott -- Scottish surnames / Carole Hough -- Studying Scots vocabulary / Caroline Macafee -- Syntax and discourse in modern Scots / Jim Miller -- The phonology of modern urban Scots / Jane Stuart-Smith -- The phonology of older Scots / Caroline Macafee : incorporating material by the late A.J. …”
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Song Family Village. 1, The Secret of the Stone : Segmentary Lineage Organization in a North China Village

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Emperor and Ancestor : State and Lineage in South China. by Faure, David

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note for the Nonspecialist Reader -- Emperor and Ancestor -- Introduction -- Historical Geography -- Exotic Guangzhou -- Confucian Incursions -- We and They -- The Land -- From Registered Households to Lineages -- Early Ming Society -- The Recession of Labor Service -- The Yao Wars and Ritual Orthodoxy -- Administrative Transition -- Lineages Gentrified -- Lineage Building: The Huo Surname of Foshan -- Magnates on the Sands -- From Ming to Qing -- Gentry Leadership in Local Society…”
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The bonjour gene : a novel by Marzán, Julio, 1946-

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Out in the heartland

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Unconventional anthroponyms : formation patterns and discursive function

Table of Contents: “…FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PART ONE; VOCATIVES AS MITIGATORSIN FACE-THREATENING CONTEXTS; PROLEGOMENA TO A DIFFERENTKIND OF NAMING; UNCONVENTIONAL USES OF PROPER NAMES; UNCONVENTIONAL; PART TWO; NAMES OF ABANDONED CHILDREN; UNCONVENTIONAL ANTHROPONYMSIN THE HUNGARIAN SURNAME SYSTEM; NICKNAMES OR COLLECTIVE BYNAMES?; UNCONVENTIONAL FIRST NAMES; CROSSING CULTURALAND LINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES; ANTHROPONYMS IN ADVERTISING TEXTS(THE CASE OF RUSSIAN TELEVISIONCOMMERCIALS); THE PROSCRIPTION AND LEGITIMISATIONOF NAMES IN JAPAN.…”
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The Hebrew Bible in fifteenth-century Spain : exegesis, literature, philosophy, and the arts

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Reshaping the Frontier Landscape. by HUANG, Fei

Table of Contents: “…; Preventing Water Disasters; Contesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous People; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous Women; The Meng Yan Shrine: An Indigenous General Who Surrendered; Shesai and the Origin of the Lu Surname; "Fake" Han Chinese People or "Fake" Indigenous People; Conclusion; Chapter 8 The New Mansions; Huiguan Associations in Frontier; Building the Huiguan; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Shaping identity in medieval French literature : the other within

Table of Contents: “…Burr -- The medieval moi multiple: names, surnames, and personifications / Douglas Kelly -- "Je veuil ung livre encommencier": the othernesses of Othon de Grandson's "Je" / Jane H.M. …”
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The entrepreneurial society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920 : power and influence in the Porth-Pontypridd region by Griffiths, Richard, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…Preface; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on surnames; The SouthWales Coal Industry; 'A dogged will, a fixity of purpose, a tenacity ofspirit': Siamps Thomas (1817-1901); 'A blunt, straightforward, and from head to feet anhonest man': Richard Mathias (1814-1890); The Rhondda Second Generation:William Henry Mathias (1845-1922), a Rhondda Notable; The Rhondda Second Generation:Some Other Major Figures; W.H. …”
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Socio-onomastics : the pragmatics of names

Table of Contents: “…Compromise strategies in Finnish-Norwegian families -- 7.1 One first name -- 7.2 Two first names -- 7.3 First name + surname -- 7.4 Middle name + surname -- 8. Differences between the family groups -- 8.1 One first name versus multiple first names -- 8.2 Hyphenated names -- 8.3 Middle names -- 9. …”
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Gender, power and privilege in early modern Europe by Richards, Penny, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Gender-based discourse and practice: public morality and the preservation of ethical normsImagining gender: femininity and masculinity in visual arts and fiction; Conclusions: early emancipation and discrimination in the Low Countries; 3 'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner; 4 The importance of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family: The Martinengo of Brescia; Introduction; Names for a surname; Genealogical chart; Saints and godfathers, the deceased.…”
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Essential Cataloguing : the Basics. by Bowman, J. H.

Table of Contents: “…Title entryChanges of persons or bodies responsible for a work; Miscellaneous cases; Works by more than one person or body; Shared responsibility; Works of mixed responsibility; Related works; Added entries; 6 Multipart works; Description; Multipart works and series; Change of title between parts; Change of persons or bodies responsible between parts; 7 Headings for persons; Choice of name; Entry element; Entry under surname; Titles of nobility; Entry under given name, etc.; Entry under initials, letters or numerals; Entry under phrase; Additions to names; Married women; Saints; Spirits.…”
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